novelraw Chapter 249
Chapter 249
249~ Weaving Dreams~
"I haven't! I'm just resting......"
The Little Princess argued sophistically.
"Resting? You call this resting? We don't see it that way. We only see a废person lying on Our bed!"
"So what!?"
What could she do? She had already tried her best. What more did they want from her! She had clearly already tried her best......
"Our Imperial Consort has never given up voluntarily over such a small setback. Where is the courage Mo had when she escaped from Our side? Where did Mo's courage go?"
"Why bring that up?"
Her brain was probably fried back then, right?
"Does Mo know what We like most about Mo? It's Mo's appearance of never admitting defeat. The current Mo has already lost her soul."
"So what?"
"So? Starting today, Xiyan is temporarily forbidden from approaching the Imperial Palace, and you, during this period, will be handled by Ling. You are not permitted to step outside the Imperial Palace even once."
The Empress declared that her freedom would once again be completely stripped away.
"Whatever you want."
She had no intention of going out again anyway, much less any desire to return to Glaze Nation. As long as there was no news of anything happening to her Father the King, it was better not to receive any more information from the outside world.
"Ling, you handle this. Just like before, wash her clean and bring her to us."
"Yes."
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"Ling?"
"Please speak."
"What's Fei going crazy about today?"
"Your Majesty is only angry because Princess Mo, You are too dejected. As long as Princess Mo, You return to your former self, perhaps Your Majesty will grant You freedom again."
"Mm, just because of that?"
That was easy then. She didn't want to leave the Imperial Palace of Scarlet Phoenix Nation anyway. How about just staying here for life? Without needing to think about anything, just give her two cats and a book, and she could pass a very long period of time.
"Princess Mo......"
For a moment, Ling didn't know what to say. No one had expected this kind of thing to happen, much less expected that the Little Princess would be struck down so thoroughly because of it.
Although the blow was huge, this was too thoroughly dejected. Whether it was the Empress, herself, Xiyan and Red Leaf, or even Gong far away in Glaze Nation, none of them wanted the Little Princess to be in this kind of state.
If it was like this, everything she had previously discussed with Senior Cecilia would be impossible to realize!
The Little Princess was the key link in this plan.
She also had to find a way to stimulate the Little Princess's motivation.
"Princess Mo, have You heard the story of the woodcutter and the snake?"
"I've heard it. Why?"
"Then does Princess Mo think that those citizens of Glaze Nation are that snake?"
"Not really."
The answer the Little Princess gave surprised her somewhat. She wanted to hear what the Little Princess would say next.
"I just feel that I'm an idiot. Clearly knowing that the human heart is not something reliable at all, yet I still wanted to believe in it."
Ling: "......"
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"Your Majesty, I've washed Princess Mo clean and brought her over."
"Mm."
The Empress lowered her head reviewing memorials, not raising her head at all. She only casually pointed at the small nest beside the office desk.
Returning to this small nest again, this time the Little Princess simply lay down directly and prepared to sleep.
Since she was tied here and couldn't do anything, she might as well just sleep.
However, very quickly, just when she was about to fall asleep, the other end of the chain attached to the collar around her neck suddenly yanked hard, dispelling her drowsiness.
What the hell!? She wasn't even allowed to sleep now!?
For a moment, a nameless fury rose from her belly. She wanted to go up and punch the Empress hard, but the outcome of doing so would most likely be that she couldn't get out of bed for the entire next day.
"No sleeping. If you're sleepy, pinch yourself."
Wasn't this just wanting to torment her!?
She had no choice but to go beside the Empress's office desk, casually grab a book and return to the small nest. This time the Empress didn't say anything, still burying her head handling today's government affairs.
"Yawn......"
Whenever she was unbearably sleepy, her eyelids fighting a losing battle and about to close, the Empress would pull the iron chain hard to wake her up. After this repeated several times, she finally couldn't hold on anymore. No matter how much the Empress pulled, she didn't have a single bit of reaction.
"Mo? Mo?"
......
When she woke up, it was already the dinner hour in the evening. She was still in the small nest the Empress had arranged, except the Empress had long since disappeared. The end of the chain attached to the collar around her neck was just hanging there on the corner of the office desk.
What was going on? That hentai Empress just left her alone here and didn't care about her?
Her stomach was growling. After calling for Ling a few times with no one appearing, she simply picked up the end of the chain and walked to the dining hall herself to take a look.
The result was that the dining hall closest to the bedroom, which only core maids could enter, didn't have a single person, but many ingredients had been left behind.
"Xiyan!? Ling!? Red Leaf!?"
She called out a few times and still got no response. Even Chocolate and Vanilla from the bedroom had disappeared without a trace, who knows where they had mischievously run off to play.
The huge Imperial Palace was cold and empty, without a single person.
"Fei? Fei?"
She suddenly realized something wasn't quite right and began calling for the Empress.
In the entire Imperial Palace, even if these few people weren't here, there should still be other maids, right? Yet even after walking out of the Imperial Palace, within the entire Imperial City's range, she couldn't find a single person to talk to!
What was worse, the sky was getting darker and darker. It had already become so dark she could barely see the road. She could only wait inside the Imperial Palace.
When her stomach was hungry, she could only get a cup of water to tide herself over. As for cooking, that most basic survival skill had been completely forgotten during those eighteen years of living in luxury in Glaze Nation.
In other words, if the Imperial Palace continued to have no one, she would starve to death here!!
"Fei......"
She didn't know what exactly had gone wrong. How did she just sleep for a bit and things became like this? She felt extremely helpless.
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"Your Majesty, is this really all right?"
"It's not all right, but we can't let Mo continue maintaining this state. It's time to give Mo some sense of crisis."
Ling didn't dare speak from the side. The Empress had already spoken, what more could she say?
She could only watch as the Little Princess's brows furrowed tightly, her breathing in the small nest continuously accelerating, her body trembling nonstop.
This was a dreamscape the Empress had specially woven for the Little Princess, in order to let the Little Princess sense the crisis and thereby break free from this current state. It was just that she felt this intensity might be too much?
In the dream......
"Fei...... Fei...... Fei......"
If the hentai Empress didn't come back soon, she really would starve to death!
So where on earth did all those people from Scarlet Phoenix Nation go? Until now, forget about seeing a person's shadow, she hadn't even seen a ghost's shadow!
Climbing to the highest point, she looked at the outer city separated by only one wall, its lights dim and scattered. She really wanted to go out and find something to bring back to eat!
Right now, everyone in the entire Imperial City had run off who knows where. She couldn't find a single thing to eat!